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Because the world's 1½ Ib. of radium is worth some $1,500,000 an ounce and because radium can cause incurable burns, every time a tiny capsule of radium or a tiny needle-like tube of radium emanation is thrown away with a patient's dressing, sent to the laundry with towels or, on rare occasions, left inside a patient, every soul connected with the loss frantically searches for the missing stuff. Last week Britain's National Physical Laboratory offered such radium hunters a small, efficient radium locater. Sensitive to the electromagnetic gamma rays which...
Born. To Columnist Walter Winchell and Mrs. (June Magee) Winchell; a son; in Manhattan. Name: Walter Jr. Weight: 7 Ib. 6 oz. The Winchells have a daughter, Walda...
...Strong." Neither sin nor suit can solve the problem which confronts Rose Freistater, 26, of The Bronx. When Miss Freistater applied for a teaching job in 1931, New York City examiners put her on the scales, found she weighed 182 Ib. Normal weight for a woman of Miss Freistater's 5 ft., 2 in. is 120 Ib. The examiners split the difference, gave her six months to train down to 150. The fretful life of a substitute teacher brought her down to 162 but at the end of six months she was back at 180. Refused a permanent...
Born. To John Jacob Astor III, 22, and the former Ellen Tuck French, 19: a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib...
...selling at $15 per share. Profits before depletion in 1934 were $1,500,000. Including a small amount of ore handled for other nearby mines, Hudson Bay's production last year was 99,000 oz. of gold, 1,300,000 oz. of silver, 37,000,000 Ib. of copper, 49,000,000 Ib. of zinc. Today with copper in world markets about 7? per Ib. and hard to sell at that, the great Whitney promotion market-wise has a somewhat golden appeal. With gold at $35 per oz. nearly one half of its revenues last year were...